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Kris Gourlay

Cold War bunker in Edinburgh to be opened to the public as plans to transform the 1950s shelter approved

A Cold War bunker in Edinburgh will soon be opened to the public after plans to transform the 1950s abandoned shelter were approved.

Buried 100ft below Corstorphine Hill in Edinburgh, it was Scotland's first line of defence against the threat of a nuclear attack.

Thankfully, the possibility of a Russian ambush between 1946 and 1982 never materialised and it was not used for that purpose.

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